Freedom summer.

Title:

Freedom summer.

ISBN:

9781627890229

Publication Information:

Arlington, VA : distributed by PBS Distribution

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

General Note:

Title from web page.

Originally released as a motion picture in 2010.

DVD.

Summary:

In the hot and deadly summer of 1964, the nation could not turn away from Mississippi. Over ten memorable weeks known as Freedom Summer, more than 700 student volunteers joined with organizers and local African Americans in a historic effort to shatter the foundations of white supremacy in one of the nation's most segregated states, even in the face of intimidation, physical violence, and death.

Geographic Term:

Mississippi -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.

Subject Term:

African Americans -- Suffrage--Mississippi -- History 20th century.

Civil rights movements--Mississippi -- History 20th century

Ethnicity

Political activists

Racism

Black people -- Suffrage--Mississippi -- History 20th century

Genre:

Documentary films

Films for people who are deaf or hard of hearing